I used a number of different simple techniques on todays card, some stamping, some stenciling and some punch art. I kinda wanted to work with neutral shades rather than bringing in colour. Although I have used a ‘thinking of you’ sort of greeting I think this design / layout would work for any occasion if you change up the greeting and you could bring in other colours as well. 🙂
Continue readingEarlier this week my great nephew turned 13, such a difficult age to create a card for. After sorting thru my stamp sets and doing a lot of head scratching the Trucking Along Stamp Set arrived at the top of the pile – BOOYAH – all young men can relate to a truck… right?
Continue readingIt is about 10 days before Valentine Day – so still plenty of time to make some cards for friends and loved ones and get them into the post!!
I have taken this opportunity to use another of the Sale-a-bration freebies ~ the Most Adored Decorative Paper Pack along with a couple of punches and a little bit of stampin’!
Continue readingYou never know where inspiration will come from – todays’ color combo comes from a classic car I saw in a recent July 4th parade. The car had been beautifully restored and as soon as it drove by I said Petal Pink, Basic Black and Very Vanilla!!! I came straight home and created this card 🙂
Continue readingCheck out this cute lil’ guy – I just love his cheerful face and his gift ready for giving! I used the Penguin Place Stamp Set with the coordinating Penguin Builder Punch. While I have made this a Christmas Card there are lots of different greetings within the stamp set to use the same design for a birthday, thank you or friend card – very versatile.
Continue readingThis would make a great inspirational card – ‘You can bug me anytime’ is the perfect way to tell someone you are there for them! Coupled with this cute punch art Lady Bug flitting around the flowers, this is a quick and easy card to make.
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Continue readingYou have probably picked up over the years that I love punches! They are quick and easy to use – I used the Lady Bird Builder Punch to create the sweet little honey bee on today’s card.
While I am very fond of shabby chic/vintage style cards I don’t make them very often as I run out of ideas, however the ink sponging technique with a little water coloring is a great way to start. Read on to see the card and video on creating the honey bee.
Continue readingWhile we have had a very wet May here in North Texas, when the sun comes out it get hot very quickly. Today we have one of those sunny days, perfect for an ice cream cone which featured on my card today.
We have a few more weeks for the January – June 2021 mini catalog where you can find the Ice Cream Corner Suite. By using the appropriate ink colors I have a mint, strawberry and vanilla ice cream stack!
Continue readingIn the early part of last December I had a class to create a flip over calendar, everyone loved it and made me promise we will do another later in this new year! I thought I might start each month this year by posting the page for that month, so today I share, March which you can see has a St Patrick’s Day theme.
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Welcome to the Ink & Share Scrapbook blog hop, we are group of international Stampin UP! demonstrators sharing our ideas and creativity with you.
You will have either arrived from Heike’s post or starting here ~ either way WELCOME. This month we have a choice of theme Halloween or Autumn ~ I have chosen Halloween. As an expat Brit, it is a holiday that was not particularly popular when I left nearly 19 years ago, but it was the first holiday that we experienced when we arrived in October of 2001 and I soon learned how popular it is here in the States!!
Once again I have chosen to use a 12 x 12 page – mainly because Stampin’ UP! has 12 x 12 card stock in all its colors which gives me a fantastic choice.
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Cindy's Corner 